The last year has been a tough one for us. Aside from losing my mother and father just a few months apart, we also lost my Jäger, and a few weeks ago, our rescue Griff Piper. Got so I was afraid to get out of bed in the morning.

After losing Jags and Piper (and Holly Dolly the year before), my wife Les still had Kiren The Little Beer dog, a puppy out of Jags:





but I had pretty much decided no more puppies for me. For me, losing them is like l imagine losing a kid would be, and I figured I'd had about enough. Lots of friends have lots of great dogs to pet and scratch their ears.

Of course, the essential problem with this is it assumes the wife is going to go with the program.

The short story is there is now another Griff puppy in the family. Well, not quite a puppy anymore, he's six months old:







One minor problem: he doesn't have a name yet except "Blue". Now who the hell would name a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon "Blue"??? Don't work.

Pups are usually easy to name after watching them bumbling around the house the first couple of days after they come home. This little guy, however, we didn't have that opportunity. I've seen enough of him to know he's absolutely psychotic for birds, so good that we're probably taking him out for his first Sharpie and pheasant hunt within a few days. He's almost steady to point, for crying out loud. But, not a lot to give insight to his personality just yet.

So he needs his goofy registered name and a call name.

The registered name has to start with Sapphire because of the Montana kennel he is out of. That shouldn't be too hard as I don't much care about that. Sapphire Alpine Lakes, Sapphire Kootenay Thumper... whatever.

But I am absolutely blanking on a call name for the little guy. His Dad's name is Jock... hmmm. He's kind of incredibly self possessed for a puppy. How about "Laird"?

Anyways, thought you might enjoy the pics. Feel free to suggest names. But with dogs in my past named "Leben", "Jäger", etc, names like "Bob", "Pal", etc don't cut it. Dogs are dignified, classy characters most humans could take lessons on that from, and they deserve nothing less than a name that fits that.

starbuck
killian
paul
james (jamie)
brimley

You Should Name Him SWAGGER!

He kinda looks like a CHARLIE too!

I dont know why, but I think about a book I read (again) recently "Graceling" by Kristin Cashore. Gracelings are persons who are graced with a special talents. A graceling also has different color eyes (one eye is a color different than the other) which is how you know someone is graced. What ever their talent (fighting, hunting, cooking,..) they are very gifted in it. Poe is the main male character who has a special talent (no spoilers here) and for some reason when you mentioned how talented your puppy is with hunting and the eyes in the photos, I thought of the name "Poe"

My uncle has a Wired Hair Pointing Griffen.....

So he named him Griff.

Rambo !


That kind of dogs are wery popular around here. A lot of people hunt birds with them. I dont know the name of bird in english but in sami language its Giron witch is the name of my home town. Famous grouse whisky botles have a picture of that bird. I think Rambo would be the name that fits both dog and owner

Is it a Drahthaar or a Korthals.

That could give a clue as a German or French name.

Ding

Well maybe i am wrong. We had dogs like that in the family but we call them worster.

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It is the same kind of dog. I am sure Because we have a tradition of hunting Giron and a lot of people cross coutry ski with worsters they are wery popular here. Our dog was a wery strong personality He would eat my sandwich from the table even if he knew that it was forbidden He would take a hit or 2 He payd the price every time It was worth it for him. As a hunter he was unbeliveble. When my sister was walking with him on the mountains beside our house he could catch Grouse birds that hide in the bushes.
My sister that did not like him to kill birds was mad like a thunder cloud when she came home with a dead bird in one hand and Falco the dog in the other Basicly the dog did everything with style , he got beaten with style hunted with style and was a belowed member of our family.

I like Blue. Yup, that's my vote.
Nice bird by the way. If you decide to use one of the names suggsted by one of the inmates. Do they get a guided pheasent hunt? I could be on the next plane out. With my trusty Remington 870. ( I procrastinated too long to get me a Ruger Gold Label.)

Actually the griffon wire haired is the Korthals. The Drahthaar is the german wire haired pointer. Both are griffons but from different sources.

It's difficult to differenciate both races. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/GermanWirehrPtr1_wb.jpg

Here is a picture of a german

And a picture of a french http://www.alix-griffon-korthals.fr/public/base/Alix_des_Lys_du_Bois_en_pied.jpg

They look pretty much alike but the standard of the german is slightly taller than the french. The individuals are hard to differenciate especially if they are groomed the same way.

If you ever want to breed your dog try this place http://www.griffonfeufollet.com/. Eventhough their dogs are good at the showroom they are from working lineage.

I have a friend that own one and his dog is fabulous both as family dog and hunting partner. Easily trained to point, flush and retrieve.

It's name is Elvis. Not my friend, the dog.